Meurig ap Llewellyn

Meurig ap Llewellyn

Male Abt 1451 - 1530  (~ 79 years)

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  • Name Meurig ap Llewellyn  [1, 2
    Born Abt 1451  Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Also Known As Meurig ap Llewelyn Bodorgan 
    Also Known As Meurig ap Llywelyn of Bodeon 
    Also Known As Meurig ap Llywelyn of Bodeon ac Bodsilin 
    Died 1530  Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I13625  Mallory Genealogy
    Last Modified 11 Jan 2023 

    Father Llewellyn ap Hwlkin,   b. Abt. 1400, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1465, Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Mother Margery ferch Ievan Lloyd 
    Family ID F4942  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret ferch Ieuan,   b. Abt. 1483, Llanelidan, Denbighshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Owain ap Meurig,   b. Abt 1470, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Owen
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2023 
    Family ID F4941  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Meurig, to whom he left Bodowen. He witnessed a deed at Bodedern, 30 HENRY VII, (1459), and d. in 1550. His wife was Margaret, dau. (by Anghared, dau. and co-heir of Ednyfed ap Sir Tudor, paternal uncle of Owen Tudor, of Ievan Vychan ap Adha, of Pengwern, co. Denbigh, and jure uxoris of Mostyn, co. Flint, ancestor of the Mostyns of Mostyn, derived from Tudor Trevor, Lord of Hereford. By this lady he had two sons,
       
      1 Owen ap Meurig, of Bodowen, in Anglesey, whose great-grandson, Sir Hugh Owen, Knt., of Bodowen, m. Elizabeth, dau. and heir of George Wiriot, Esq. Of Orielton, co. Pembroke, and had two sons,
       
      William Owen, ancestor of the Owens of Bodowen, and John Owen, grandfather of Sir Hugh Owen, Knt. Of Orielton, created a Bart. In 1611.
       
      2 John Owen, ancestor of the Owens of Bodsilin, subsequently also of Clenenneu, co. Carnarvon, and Brogyntyn, Salop. Their heir, Margaret, dau. of William, Owen, Esq. was mother, by her husband, Owen Ormsby, Esq. of Willow Brook, co. Sligo, of a dau. and heir, Mary Jane, who inherited the family estates. She m. 11 Jan. 1815, William Gore, Esq. M.P., who assumed the additional surname of Ormsby, and by him is the mother of John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, Esq., created Baron Harlech, 1875.

      source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1. London, UK: Harrison, 1882.

  • Sources 
    1. [S55] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1, Bernard Burke, (London, UK: Harrison, 1882).

    2. [S32] The Gentry of North Wales in the Later Middle Ages, Antony D. Carr, (Cardiff, UK:University of Wales Press, 2017).